What are the rules on rate-ups exactly?Follow

I'm talking about (mis) perception. Thought I was pretty clear. ..Try try again.. See your base karma is high enough that 1 rate up puts it excellent. Newbie comes in see excellent, presumes circle jerk due to said content. I popped over to forum 28 picked a thread at random and picked 2 posts at random. It's not personal.

Ahh, it's just a funny cosmic coincidence then that you actually did pick a thread that was nothing more than a CJ. Now that's funny. I guess, though, you know what they say, "Drop a **** or a midget in the OoT and it's bound to land on a CJ".

Why is it always the whiney ones that insist the system is a joke?

Why is it no one can respond to the request to put the guidelines that you follow in print somewhere or at least spell out what kind of behavior is unacceptable in the FAQ?

Is it because you can't answer that contractually, then just say that. Or is it really because despite the "Guidelines" and impartiality, it isn't really consistency between admins and between forums?

Obviously Pikko and Kaolain deal with things vastly diferent. We've been told numerous times how lucky we are that Pikko found it first. So clearly there is at least one inconsistency there.

And seriously you might not think of Karma as a joke, but the war forums has never really taken it too serious. We've never needed pretty colors to figure out who was wasting electrons and who had something worth saying. This whole thing started because of that additude. It got out of control when we realized how amazingly simple it was to get people to higher ranks.

What has people in the War forums upset is not their Karma or that they got norated but the fact that a rule that is not clearly stated anywhere, was enforced with minimal warning on them. It's akin to having a Speed limit posted by word of mouth then getting a ticket for 15 over.

Putting limit counters on everyones raes would add so much overhead to the servers that the site would probably grind to an intant halt.

You rated single person 160 times in a single day. Perhaps my "sucky" method of warning you that it if it ever happens again you will be norated and karma bombed back into the stone age doesn't seem to work well to you, but I find it is highly effective in resolving trouble spots.

The karma system is working as intended. Anomalies will be adjudicated. Resistance is Futile.

Are you guys ******** because you got caught having a circle jerk and Pikko knocked you down for it? Is your argument that the karma system is a joke and you don't care about it? Do you choke yourself when you ********** to moogles? Do you then go on about how there should be warnings posted about what is breaking the karma rules? Are you children, incapable of drawing the conclusion that on a user-moderated forum the rating of posts is the barometer by which we can tell whether or not you suck? Can you not therefore cocnlude that you shouldn't abuse that system one way or the other, not out of fear of punishment but just because you aren't a total moron? Do your eyes water in rage just reading this? Want to tell me to go away? Do you need someone to hold your hand all the time and whisper the right way to behave in your stupid little ear? What kind of a self-centered *** do you have to be to recommend the site overhaul it's system because you got caught abusing it?

Can I make this any more clear? Shut up and crawl back into your clubhouse.

Oh come off it. At least admit you're upset because your hijynx got put to an end. I mean, this:



doesn't sound like someone who doesn't care. I mean, check this out, it's mind-blowing: you just compared being no-rated and having karma penalized with getting a speeding ticket. There's a difference here, unless you don't really give a hoot about your financial losses from speeding tickets.

You do care about losing rating abilities. You do care about getting spanked. Otherwise you wouldn't be making this plea for a more clear explanation of the rules. The whole thing is really just misdirected angst placed at the lack of clear and present warnings when really you're just pissed you got caught.

And I'm not talking just to you, whoever I just quoted, I'm talking to all of you who are crying in this thread. Just buck up and move on. You've learned your lesson, right?

You've learned your lesson, and it's one that shouldn't really need learning. It's a lesson that if any of you were being sincere you would admit you knew, because it's obvious that rating people hundreds of times a day is ridiculous.

I rate Barkingturtle up because I have a huge eCrush on him. I rate Kaolian down because I'm fighting the man!



The system is a joke.

No, seriously, it is. It's fun, I guess, but it's still a joke. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not ********* I'm sitting on 18-no-life-and-no-*****-thousand posts with a 3.26 karma rating. I'm not going anywhere unless Kao goes on a rampage (note to self: purchase premium immediately after writing this thread) or Judgement Day comes knocking on the door. Karma is just a thing I can look and giggle at. I see the idiots get rated to sub-default and the smartmouths usually get rated to sage or guru if their vocabulary and IQ is sufficient.

The point is, it doesn't change anything. The idiots will just keep posting and make new accounts until they get bansmacked. Banning negates the point of the karma system (user moderation) since users can't ban other users (yet). The gurus are usually sitting on a couple of thousand posts and they're popular enough to never go below the filter, unless they really **** up, in which case the above mentioned scenario takes over. Let's face it, above default and it doesn't really matter what ******* color your name is in. The colors only play a role ePeen-wise and for prejudice (gurus must be popular, hence their posts must, per definition, be awesome).

I thought about actively rating people down a lot a while back, but came to the conclusion that some ****** out there might just do the opposite of what I'm doing, making my ratings worthless. I even have the filter set to "never" so I don't miss out on the sub-default posts. There are some good laughs to be found in those once in a while.

Anyways, just thought I'd chime in. Go karma, go.

Ps. Just to cover all bases, why have so many asylumites turned guru?

Mazra proves my argument. I rest my case.

Why are so many Asylumites guru? For one thing they have been here a heck of alot longer than many of you. They were active in the current forum system during much of the beta testing phase, and were therefore exposed to the karma system early, plus they had larger post counts overall compared to most of the other sections, which generally has a tendancy for others to rate their posts up ive noticed. Most of the asylumites that have guru had it before I became an admin. I did move a few of them afterwords that I felt deserved it, but I have also moved a few OOTers, FFXIers, Wow posters, etc. I have also moved down people in all sections who have abused the system.

So basically the asylumites are Gurus because they are better than you and you smell funny.

The smiley help is the forum FAQ or the other menu one?

If you are talking about the Menu FAQ I just searched it again and still don't see anything about abuse.

If you are talking about the one in the smileys links, then it is there, and it is specifc and clear, but I would think a general link to it titled "Forum Rules & Help" would get more attention for those seeking rules then having it only linked under Markup Help and Smileys Help, neither of which suggest that rules would be found there, and since I believe only premium users get smileys, free users would probably never use that link.

Again if it is directly linked somewhere else, I apologize, but having used this site for over 3 years now, I have never seen such a link.

Because they take it all too personally.



All asylumites smell like limburger.

Edited, Aug 11th 2007 3:23pm by Annabella

yoiu know we can retrieve old accounts. The only one i see on anyof your prior IPs is smaller than that one though now